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What's up with people on the piracy subreddit always talking about how they pay for stuff. your on a piracy community and they talk about purchasing digital goods? I don't get it. New piracy gen ? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 60 points 1 year ago

But when heavy-handed DRM's and corporate shovelware and services that actively remove content I pay for makes it a shit experience. I'm gonna just torrent that shit

The annoying hurdles are what get me. I've cracked a lot of the games that I own because I hate forced updates, going through an additional client, or being asked to sign in for another service that I won't use.

[-] tuhriel@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago

I once had a valid office key... But since I reset my computer to often the amount of "free activations" was used up... There where so many hoops to jump through to re-activate it that it was easier to get a cracked key to activate my office version... That's just sick

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

That kind of related: when mostly single use software works off of a subscription model versus just being available for purchase.

[-] tuhriel@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Jep I hate the, "you don't own anything anymore" mentality... There are some valid reasons to actually provide a subscription, but most of the times it should just be a one time payment